Room Magazine

Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary journal, and has published fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, art, interviews, and book reviews for forty years. Published quarterly by the West Coast Feminist Literary Magazine Society, also known as the Growing Room Collective, Room showcases writing and art by women (cisgender and transgender), transgender men, Two-Spirit and non-binary people. Works that originally appeared in Room have been anthologized in The Journey Prize Anthology, Best Canadian Poetry, Best Canadian Stories, and Best Canadian Essays, and have been nominated for National Magazine Awards. Visit Room‘s website.

Meghan Bell has been the publisher of Room since 2015 (and an editorial board member since 2011), and has edited threeissuesof the magazine and assistant edited one. In her time at Room, Meghan has overseen multiple projects and initiatives, including:

Co-founding the Growing Room festival in 2017 and securing funding for its first two years (including grants and sponsorships). Other responsibilities include: acting as a member of the programming committee, coordinating and designing the program guides, graphic design, securing venues, managing the website and ticket sales, media relations, and crisis management.

Project management and lead editing of Making Room: Forty Years of Room Magazine, including securing a grant from the Canada Periodical Fund for the project and coordinating an IndieGoGo pre-sale campaign that raised $10,615. Addition responsibilities included: graphic design, marketing, and author communication.

Project management for Room’s print and web redesign in 2016, including securing a grant for the project.